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Memo to Snyder: Don’t stop the radical reforms now!Writer Bios
Eric Baerren
Eric Baerren is the founder of MichiganLiberal.com and a columnist for the Mount Pleasant Daily Sun. His column is one of the Daily Sun’s most popular features. Eric rejoins North Star Writers Group after being syndicated here from 2006 through 2009, during which he also doubled as our food writer under the pseudonym The Laughing Chef.
Jocelyn Benson
Jocelyn Benson, a Wayne State University professor of election law, was the 2010 Democratic nominee for Michigan Secretary of State, coming closer to victory than any other Democratic statewide candidate that year. Jocelyn is also the CEO and founder of the Michigan Center for Election Law and Administration, and led the highly successful 2011 Michigan Citizens’ Redistricting Competition. She is the author of State Secretaries of State, a book about best practices of secretaries of state across the country.
Herman Cain
Herman Cain is the former CEO of Godfathers Pizza, having won wide acclaim in the business community for successfully turning around the chain and ultimately buying it from parent company Pillsbury, where advanced quickly as a highly regarded executive. An unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate in Georgia in 2004, Herman ultimately was hired to host a weeknight talk show on WSB-AM in Atlanta. He is the author of several books on business, politics and life, and is currently seeking the Republican nomination for president of the United States in the 2012 election. North Star Writers Group has syndicated Herman’s weekly column since 2006.
Dan Calabrese
Dan Calabrese is the founder, CEO and editor in chief of North Star Writers Group. He has written a column – originally weekly and now twice-weekly – for the syndicate since its founding in December 2005. Calabrese’s column is also published by The Michigan View, the online opinion site operated by The Detroit News. An accomplished journalist, Dan frequently writes for DBusiness Magazine and many other magazines, and is an Addy-award winning advertising writer. Dan has written three novels – Powers and Principalities, Pharmakeia and Dark Matter - a series of spiritual thrillers set in his hometown of Royal Oak, Michigan.
Jake Davison
Jake Davison is a Lansing-based writer and President of political consulting and public relations firm Advantage Associates. Previously, he was Michigan State Director of Communications and Policy for Americans For Prosperity, Senior Account Executive at Rossman Public Relations, Press Secretary for the House Republican Communications Office, and Deputy Research Director for the Michigan Republican Party. Jake has been a frequent guest on public affairs programs in the Detroit, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Flint, Saginaw, Kalamazoo, Ann Arbor, Benton Harbor, Traverse City, Jackson and Marquette radio markets and has been quoted by the Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, Oakland Press, Gongwer, MIRS and the American Spectator.
David Karki
David Karki is a born-and-raised Minnesotan with a lifelong interest in politics, majoring in Political Science at St. Olaf College in Northfield in 1994 before serving as an assistant press secretary on Sen. Rudy Boschwitz’s 1996 U.S. Senate campaign. Since then, he has worked in the IT field (developing a healthy love/hate relationship with Microsoft) and cheered rabidly for the Minnesota Vikings at every opportunity. He presently resides in Bloomington, Minnesota.
Robert Laurie
In addition to his regular column at the Detroit News conservative commentary site, TheMichiganView, Robert Laurie writes regular columns for TheDailyCaller.com, and Andrew Breitbart’s Biggovernment.com. His work has been featured on The Frank Beckmann show, the Rush Limbaugh Show, the Sean Hannity show, and WDET’s Craig Fahle Show. A lifelong resident of the metro Detroit area, the Wayne State graduate currently resides in St. Clair Shores, where he created Black Spot Studios, a one-man design house specializing in promotional materials for area musicians and venues. Follow his national work on Twitter @RobertLaurie or visit his personal blog, RobertLaurie.net.
Gregory D. Lee
Gregory D. Lee is a retired Supervisory Special Agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the author of three criminal justice textbooks. While on DEA diplomatic assignment in Pakistan, he was involved in the investigation of several notable terrorism events and arrests. He recently retired after more than 39 years of active and reserve service from the U.S. Army Reserve as a Chief Warrant Officer Five Special Agent for the Criminal Investigation Division Command, better known as CID. In 2011 he completed a combat tour of duty in Afghanistan while on special assignment to the Special Operations Command Europe.
James Melton
James Melton serves as communications director for Inforum Michigan. Prior to joining Inforum, Melton edited and wrote for a variety of e-publications at WWJ Newsradio 950. He also is a former assistant managing editor for Crain’s Detroit Business, where his responsibilities included editing the opinion pages and writing editorials. In his spare time, Melton “tweets” about good things happening in Michigan. You can follow him on Twitter at @MichPositive.
Brett Noel
Brett Noel has been the editorial cartoonist for North Star Writers Group since 2008, and is a lifelong cartoonist and portrait artist, first drawing when he was old enough to hold a pencil. Having long dabbled in political cartoons, Brett began producing them en masse after the 2000 election debacle. He is currently carried by the Conservative Chronicle, Human Events and many other weeklies across the country.
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